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Whatnot glossary

Personal break

A break where one buyer purchases the entire product and keeps everything pulled from it, opened live on their behalf by the seller.

A personal break is a break with an audience of one. The buyer purchases a whole box or case rather than a spot in it, and the seller opens it on stream for them. Everything that comes out belongs to that buyer, hits included, so there is no team assignment, no randomizer, and no shares to divide.

Buyers choose personals for the experience and the convenience. The product gets opened on camera with the room watching, and the cards are then sorted, protected and shipped, rather than arriving as a sealed box on a doorstep. Sellers like them because a whole product sells in one transaction and the pack-out is one order instead of thirty.

The etiquette matters more than the mechanics here. A personal is somebody's money being opened in public, so name the buyer, slow down for the hits, and make sure what ships matches what the camera showed. That last part is a record-keeping job, not a memory one.